"We look for positive deviance from families we think are very typical," explained Lim Miller.
His 1966 follow-up, "July Rain," a quasi-documentary portrayal of Moscow youth, was similarly criticized for its bleakness and deviance from the party line.
She holds master's degrees in the sociology of deviance from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in social sciences from the University of Chicago.
But NBC commentators seem so wedded to script -- and prepackaged gauzy biographies -- that they act as if any deviance from the party-hearty line will somehow appear unpatriotic.
Our drug laws are purportedly there to protect individuals and society from harm – they are not meant to be there to uphold any specific moral values and punish deviance from them.
The tragic worst-case scenario is found in Boys Don't Cry, the story of trans murder victim Brandon Teena, in which the combination of deviance from the norm and inability to disappear into the crowd spells doom.
Indeed, to the extent that mental disorder is defined by deviance from societal norms, the very fact that anxiety about flying is so widespread has made the fear more socially acceptable, and thus less aberrant.
They went to villages in trouble and got the villagers to help them identify who among them had the best-nourished children — who among them had demonstrated what Jerry Sternin termed a "positive deviance" from the norm.
Crime reflects universal abnormality and deviance from normal social orders.
In this paper, the concept of discordancy from the statistical discipline of outlier analysis is used to signal deviance from the norm.
We used videorecordings of routine care to analyze health care providers' deviance from protocols and organized follow-up interviews that were conducted by an anthropologist and a nurse.
